The Accidental Smallholder Forum
Growing => Vegetables => Topic started by: wolf1 on February 10, 2015, 11:21:01 am
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Hello i am starting out on growing veg and fruit this year and would like to try to grow without chemicals i have been looking in to companion planting can anyone recommend any good books on growing organic veg and fruit thankyou.
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I continue to like Geoff Hamilton's 'Successful Organic Gardening'. It's not new and it's not glossy, but Geoff was immensely practical and down to earth. He has great ideas for low cost, make it yourself bits and bobs and his presentation is clear and straightforward.
There are loads of other glossy organic gardening books, but you pay for the shine not the content :garden:
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Thankyou Fleecewife have just ordered one :)
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If you are in Scotland there is a really good book (it's semi-glossy I would say) by Kenneth Cox and Caroline Beaton - "Fruit and Vegetables for Scotland". Has got good advice on what varieties grow up here...
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FW just beat me to it. I love the Geoff Hamilton book. I'm sure you will as well.
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If you are serious about organic then I don't think you can beat Bob flowerdew's Organic bible.
Another one I like for being practical is Carol Klein - grow your own veg journal.
The HDRA also has the encyclopaedia of organic gardening.
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Hi Anke i live in Devon thanks everyone for the replies i have ordered some books now jus waiting for them to arrive :)